How is this fair on the championship sides competing in the middle 8's?

Exactly Leythlg.

The RFL have yet again proven their utter ineptitude at managing the organisation they are charged to run.
This group of overpaid invertebrate tea drinkers are too busy with their self congratulatory tub thumping in their crazed expansionist empire to smell the coffee.

What will it take for these morons to wake up, grow some hairs on them & make a proper & forceful decision for once ?

I for one would like to see 'All' of the chairmen & BOD's take a stand with a [iVote of NO confidence[/i against the RFL, but it won't happen, there are too many SL Clubs that the RFL 'protects' over others & so it wouldn't be in their best interests to get involved.

[iP&R[/i What a joke.

Do you know which are going to be the four poorest sides at the end of the regular season, would it include Leeds or Salford (without penalty)? Would it include HKR, Wakefield , Huddersfield or even Widnes. Will Leigh improve to stand a chance with any of them, whichever teams occupy the bottom four?

Of course I [idon't know[/i which 4 SL teams will be in the middle 8's but not many would call Salford as being one of them [i*without the 6pt deduction*[/i.

As for Leigh improving enough to take a SL scalp, I don't think they would have to improve that much to be honest, even under strength Leigh are a far better team than Oldham & look what they did to KR !
A full strength Leigh who are 'on it' could well take 1 or even 2 SL teams by surprise, as could Bradford in similar circumstances.

Sadly we are still waiting for them to be 'on it' for more than 20 minutes a game

Let's just hope we peak at the end of the season when it matters.